OREANDA-NEWS. February 16, 2011. Belarus’ gold and foreign exchange reserves [calculated under the national methodology] went down 9.4% in January 2011 to USD 5.58 billion, according to the National Bank of Belarus (NBB).

Foreign exchange reserves had decreased 21.9% to USD 2.209 billion by February 1, 2011.

The amount of precious metals and stones in the NBB reserves decreased 5.1% in January to USD 1.712 billion, of monetary gold amounted to USD 1.4 billion as of February 1, 2011, down 12.5% from January 1, 2011, of gold on foreign bank accounts was at USD 108 million, of other precious metals went up 0.7% to USD 133.7 million, and of precious stones went down 0.6% to USD 70.4 million.

Other reserve assets increased 8.9% to USD 1.658 billion as of February 1, 2011.

In 2010, Belarus’ gold and foreign exchange reserves rose 3% to USD 6.155 billion.